About Us
Founded in 2001, Dark Horse Chess is a Melbourne-based chess coaching organisation involved in running a wide variety of chess-related activities. In particular, we specialise in providing high-quality individual chess coaching as well as fun and engaging lunch-time chess classes in primary and secondary schools across Melbourne.
Dark Horse Chess prides itself on two key things:
- A very high-quality private coaching program with a stellar record of success. Click here to find out more about our personal training and results.
- A school-coaching program that is taught by really friendly, enthusiastic coaches who not only are good at chess but work fantastically with young people and large groups – two very different skills!
Dark Horse Chess have a strong tradition of excellent performance in the annual Australian Junior Chess Championships. In 2018, students coached by we took out the Australian Girls Champion Title (Cassandra Lim), U16 Girls Title (Jody Middleton), and U14 Title (Kayson Wang), and in 2017 we took the top title of Australian Junior Champion (Ray Yang).
Other notable results include taking out 6 of 12 national titles (half!) in the 2015 Australian Junior Chess Championships!
We have coached many schools to victory in both the Victorian and Australian Primary and Secondary Schools Championship.
National winning teams we have coached include Presbyterian Ladies’ College (2016, 2017), Deepdene Primary School (2010 and 2011), Scotch College (2008, 2009 and 2011), and Balwyn High School (2006 and 2007).
Our Programs
who we are
Meet Some of Our Team
Chris
Jody
Cassandra
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What People Say
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